Himalayan Hypocrisy

The Indian Government, which recently went to war to uphold democracy and the right of self‐determination in East Bengal, has approved an order forbidding the return to Kashmir of the wife of the popular Kashmiri leader, Sheik Abdullah. Abdullah himself, the Kashmiri counterpart of Sheik Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh, has been barred from the predominantly Moslem state since before last year's Indian elections.

The more righteously New Delhi defends its intervention in the Pakistani civil war, the more the Indians condemn their own stubborn refusal to allow democratic self‐determination in Kashmir.

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